24 May 2012

I published the first results of the poll in the middle of December 2011. That time round, there were only 74 people who took part in the poll. Obviously, that draw lots of criticism for unrepresentative statistics.

People kept voting, despite the announcement of the results. Today I publish second round of the poll results, with number of participants more than doubled since last time: 169.

Are there any changes now? Let’s see!
Here is the table:

Xubuntu

70

Debian XFCE

30

Linux Mint XFCE

20

Other

14

Fedora XFCE

13

DreamLinux

5

Salix XFCE

5

Aptosid XFCE

4

Sabayon XFCE

3

Saline OS

3

Puredyne

1

Simply Linux

1

There are two significant changes, which I’d like to highlight.

First of all, Debian made a leap from 8 to 30 votes, which almost doubled its share from 11 to 18%.

Second is DreamLinux, which grew three times in the percentage from 1 to 3%, gaining 4 places in the chart.

Otherwise, there is nothing unexpected. The share of Xubuntu remains on the level of 41%. It means that Xubuntu dominates the market of XFCE distributions. I don’t think this will change in the nearest future, since Xubuntu 12.04 proved itself very stable and quick in both Live and installed versions.

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SalineOS, Linux Mint XFCE, aptosid & DreamLinux are all basically Debian, So Debian and Debian-based XFCE distros together total 62, almost as much as Xubuntu at 70. Debian itself is not a single distro, it is actually 3: stable (which SalineOS is based on), testing (Mint XFCE & DreamLinux) and sid, the developmental branch (aptosid). I wonder what the breakdown for Debian itself was between the three branches.

I can't believe VectorLinux and Zenwalk didn't get a single vote, two popular Slack-based XFCE distros.

I disagree, Ubuntu is very much a Debian fork still. The main difference is the release schedule and the support Canonical provides for the entire software set. Also, the main release of Mint is based on Ubuntu, while retaining a Debian Edition separate from the main release.